The fictional crushes meme thing.
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owlI've been wanting to do this for ages...
First one was Dani Burnier from Treasures of the Snow. He was six, I was six, he fell off a cliff and had bear crutches, and he was blond. I thought I could trace my taste for blond boys back to Mark Hamill, but evidently it was ingrained.
Colin in The Secret Garden. And Cedric, little Lord Fauntleroy. I was seven, what can I say.
Almanzo in the Little House on the Prairie books.
Gilbert Blythe from the Anne series. Pretty much everyone in the fandom seems to have had that one. Also Teddy Kent in the Emily series by the same author. Random factoid: I know a pastor named Teddy.
John Walker in Swallows and Amazons. He was so protective of his little sisters and brother and he had a sailing dinghy and wanted to join the Navy when he grew up. The w00blet.
Laurie in Little Women. *cough it should have been Laurie/Jo cough* I don't mind Jo and the Professor, but Laurie/Amy is sickening. They remind me of fandom!Harry/Hermione--just PUXIN. Both the potential Laurie/Jo and Professor Bhaer/Jo are real--the umbrella, lol--but Laurie/Amy is saccharine.
Hazel, from Watership Down. Yes, I know he was a rabbit. Stop looking at me like that. And Fiver was a w00blet.
Ewen Cameron from The Flight of the Heron. This was my first crush that I knew to be one at the time. Ewen was a Scottish cheiftain in the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, he was tall and handsome and auburn-haired, he wore kilts and had loyal clansmen at his beck and call. I loved him with a burning passion. And I loved his Scotland--the romantic Scotland with bagpipes and clansmen and heather and beinns and lochs which American tourists expect to find. (It's not that I don't love the real Scotland too, with its incessant rain and Glasgow tenements and battered haggis in chippies (and the heather and beinns and lochs), because I do. It's odd to think that my ancestory, stuffed with McLeans and McGregors and Stewarts and Frazers, would be considered romantic :-) )
Aragorn fron LotR, about ten years pre-film. And Legolas, before Orlando Bloom was even in acting school. And Silmarillion!Elrond--ie, less than 1000 years old :-) Can I just say, I loathe Hugo Weaving's Elrond--my Elrond was sexy. Also from The Silmarillion: Beren, Dior, Finrod and Feanor. It's the Elf thing--'tall and dark-haired, fair of face and grey-eyed, the elder Children of the World'. Quoted from memory, so it may be a little off.
Davie Balfour in Kidnapped. He was so whiny and inept. :-)
Cathy from Wuthering Heights. Not Heathcliff, Cathy. The only female I've ever crushed on. And I did not like Mr Darcy--I must be the only woman in the Potterdom who didn't. Colin Firth doesn't really do it for me, you see. I did, however, crush on Henry Tilney in Northanger Abbey and Captain Wentworth in Persuasion
Lord Peter Wimsey,from the Sayers novels. He was sardonic and drove a black Daimler and loved Harriet Vane, who ROX utterly . And he was blond too.
Carver Doone in Lorna Doone. He was played in the BBC series by the extremely hot Aiden Gillan--hear that,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
doyle_sb4?--which could have something to do with it. I don't usually go for bad boys.
Pteppic from Pyramids in the Discworld series.
Ged/Sparrowhawk in EarthSea--specially Pyramids of Atuan. He could talk to dragons and he had a scar on his cheek. But he should have got the girl earlier. ;-)
I know he's not a book character, but I just must mention Luke Skywalker. I can say without reservation that he is the most lovable fictional character I have ever come across, and I love him to bits. And being played by the talented and gorgeous Mark Hamill is great too. :-)
And finally, the Potter boys. I love Remus and Sirius, of course. It's the hurt/comfort factor. And, I wonder, am I the only person in the fandom to love Harry AND Ron AND Draco? It's because I go for underdogs, you see. Harry is the unlikely Hero, of course. And emotionally he's still in the cupboard under the stairs, and he's skinny and messy haired and he can't see a yard without his glasses. The poor w00blet can't even cry! *hugs Harry plushie*
Ron. I loff Ron muchly. And he's the fandom's underdog, which makes me all defensive for my baby. Ron is a type I have a great love for--the ordinary little boy thrust into unexpected heroism. He isn't the Hero--that's Harry--but he (and Hermione, but I don't crush on her) is the ultimate sidekick.He is your typical 11, 12 ,13, 14 year old boy (more so than Harry, who's 'an old soul', to quote his creator), but put him under pressure and he will come up trumps. (The 'You'll have to kill all three of us!" scene blows my SOX off.) That's maybe why he's unpopular--he's normal. But JKR loffs him and so do I.
Draco. Canon Draco never succeeds at anything. Harry beats him in Quidditch, Hermione beats him in class, the gang hex him into the middle of next week, Lucius slaps him with his pimp-stick (ok, that's the film), Crouch!Moody bounces him off the floor, McGonagall hates his guts. And he gets all pink when his mother is insulted. He's an underdog. And he's blond.
I like snarky!leather-trouser-wearing!sexy!chiseled features!Fanon!Draco too--particularly Starling's pics. Yum.
Historical crushes:
Bonnie Prince Charlie. Again, blond and romantic and an underdog. I know in real life he was possibly gay and certainly an alcholic, but what's that to stop me?
Judah. Yes, the Biblical one. Because he didn't want to kill Joseph and he offered to stay in Egypt in place of Benjamin. But he had babies with his daughter-in-law, which is squickful.
David--'the sweet psalmist of Israel'. A shepherd, a warrior, a king, a poet. We had a picture book when I was small, and his illo was hot ;-) Maybe it's the whole 'farmboy' thing ;-) Or perhaps it's because he cried and wrote a song when his best friend died. And my baby brother is called after him, so the crush must be genetic. Did anyone else crush on Bible people, or am I just weird?
Horrible thought: There is probably David/Jonathan slash out there somewhere. *PUX*.
Celebrity crushes:
All the Star Wars boys. Mark, Harrison, Hayden--yummy, yum, yum.
Leonardo DiCaprio. Shuttup. I was 14. And it was in Romeo + Juliet, not PUXfest-anic. Fact: I have never watched Titanic all the way through, and what I saw was bleargh.
Aiden Gillen. He plays sarcastic aristocratic English gits who look good in formal dress and leather. And he's dead gorgeous. If he were blond he'd be Fanon!Draco.
Quite sad that I have all those fictional crushes, and only one real one. And it's lasted for four-odd years, so I conclude it's probably unrequited twue wove *rolls eyes*.
First one was Dani Burnier from Treasures of the Snow. He was six, I was six, he fell off a cliff and had bear crutches, and he was blond. I thought I could trace my taste for blond boys back to Mark Hamill, but evidently it was ingrained.
Colin in The Secret Garden. And Cedric, little Lord Fauntleroy. I was seven, what can I say.
Almanzo in the Little House on the Prairie books.
Gilbert Blythe from the Anne series. Pretty much everyone in the fandom seems to have had that one. Also Teddy Kent in the Emily series by the same author. Random factoid: I know a pastor named Teddy.
John Walker in Swallows and Amazons. He was so protective of his little sisters and brother and he had a sailing dinghy and wanted to join the Navy when he grew up. The w00blet.
Laurie in Little Women. *cough it should have been Laurie/Jo cough* I don't mind Jo and the Professor, but Laurie/Amy is sickening. They remind me of fandom!Harry/Hermione--just PUXIN. Both the potential Laurie/Jo and Professor Bhaer/Jo are real--the umbrella, lol--but Laurie/Amy is saccharine.
Hazel, from Watership Down. Yes, I know he was a rabbit. Stop looking at me like that. And Fiver was a w00blet.
Ewen Cameron from The Flight of the Heron. This was my first crush that I knew to be one at the time. Ewen was a Scottish cheiftain in the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, he was tall and handsome and auburn-haired, he wore kilts and had loyal clansmen at his beck and call. I loved him with a burning passion. And I loved his Scotland--the romantic Scotland with bagpipes and clansmen and heather and beinns and lochs which American tourists expect to find. (It's not that I don't love the real Scotland too, with its incessant rain and Glasgow tenements and battered haggis in chippies (and the heather and beinns and lochs), because I do. It's odd to think that my ancestory, stuffed with McLeans and McGregors and Stewarts and Frazers, would be considered romantic :-) )
Aragorn fron LotR, about ten years pre-film. And Legolas, before Orlando Bloom was even in acting school. And Silmarillion!Elrond--ie, less than 1000 years old :-) Can I just say, I loathe Hugo Weaving's Elrond--my Elrond was sexy. Also from The Silmarillion: Beren, Dior, Finrod and Feanor. It's the Elf thing--'tall and dark-haired, fair of face and grey-eyed, the elder Children of the World'. Quoted from memory, so it may be a little off.
Davie Balfour in Kidnapped. He was so whiny and inept. :-)
Cathy from Wuthering Heights. Not Heathcliff, Cathy. The only female I've ever crushed on. And I did not like Mr Darcy--I must be the only woman in the Potterdom who didn't. Colin Firth doesn't really do it for me, you see. I did, however, crush on Henry Tilney in Northanger Abbey and Captain Wentworth in Persuasion
Lord Peter Wimsey,from the Sayers novels. He was sardonic and drove a black Daimler and loved Harriet Vane, who ROX utterly . And he was blond too.
Carver Doone in Lorna Doone. He was played in the BBC series by the extremely hot Aiden Gillan--hear that,
doyle_sb4?--which could have something to do with it. I don't usually go for bad boys.Pteppic from Pyramids in the Discworld series.
Ged/Sparrowhawk in EarthSea--specially Pyramids of Atuan. He could talk to dragons and he had a scar on his cheek. But he should have got the girl earlier. ;-)
I know he's not a book character, but I just must mention Luke Skywalker. I can say without reservation that he is the most lovable fictional character I have ever come across, and I love him to bits. And being played by the talented and gorgeous Mark Hamill is great too. :-)
And finally, the Potter boys. I love Remus and Sirius, of course. It's the hurt/comfort factor. And, I wonder, am I the only person in the fandom to love Harry AND Ron AND Draco? It's because I go for underdogs, you see. Harry is the unlikely Hero, of course. And emotionally he's still in the cupboard under the stairs, and he's skinny and messy haired and he can't see a yard without his glasses. The poor w00blet can't even cry! *hugs Harry plushie*
Ron. I loff Ron muchly. And he's the fandom's underdog, which makes me all defensive for my baby. Ron is a type I have a great love for--the ordinary little boy thrust into unexpected heroism. He isn't the Hero--that's Harry--but he (and Hermione, but I don't crush on her) is the ultimate sidekick.He is your typical 11, 12 ,13, 14 year old boy (more so than Harry, who's 'an old soul', to quote his creator), but put him under pressure and he will come up trumps. (The 'You'll have to kill all three of us!" scene blows my SOX off.) That's maybe why he's unpopular--he's normal. But JKR loffs him and so do I.
Draco. Canon Draco never succeeds at anything. Harry beats him in Quidditch, Hermione beats him in class, the gang hex him into the middle of next week, Lucius slaps him with his pimp-stick (ok, that's the film), Crouch!Moody bounces him off the floor, McGonagall hates his guts. And he gets all pink when his mother is insulted. He's an underdog. And he's blond.
I like snarky!leather-trouser-wearing!sexy!chiseled features!Fanon!Draco too--particularly Starling's pics. Yum.
Historical crushes:
Bonnie Prince Charlie. Again, blond and romantic and an underdog. I know in real life he was possibly gay and certainly an alcholic, but what's that to stop me?
Judah. Yes, the Biblical one. Because he didn't want to kill Joseph and he offered to stay in Egypt in place of Benjamin. But he had babies with his daughter-in-law, which is squickful.
David--'the sweet psalmist of Israel'. A shepherd, a warrior, a king, a poet. We had a picture book when I was small, and his illo was hot ;-) Maybe it's the whole 'farmboy' thing ;-) Or perhaps it's because he cried and wrote a song when his best friend died. And my baby brother is called after him, so the crush must be genetic. Did anyone else crush on Bible people, or am I just weird?
Horrible thought: There is probably David/Jonathan slash out there somewhere. *PUX*.
Celebrity crushes:
All the Star Wars boys. Mark, Harrison, Hayden--yummy, yum, yum.
Leonardo DiCaprio. Shuttup. I was 14. And it was in Romeo + Juliet, not PUXfest-anic. Fact: I have never watched Titanic all the way through, and what I saw was bleargh.
Aiden Gillen. He plays sarcastic aristocratic English gits who look good in formal dress and leather. And he's dead gorgeous. If he were blond he'd be Fanon!Draco.
Quite sad that I have all those fictional crushes, and only one real one. And it's lasted for four-odd years, so I conclude it's probably unrequited twue wove *rolls eyes*.
